Painting is my way of life and my way of thinking the world. What I can’t say with words I say through my art. I was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1971, where I studied painting with Professor Emil Robert Tanay between 1992 and 1997. In 1998 I moved to Portugal. For me it was a great experience, the bright skies of the unforgettable and multicultural Lisbon, the endless ocean. It was a new world for someone coming from a land recently ravaged by war and hate. There I met my husband, the author and illustrator Fernando Relvas.